Arrested: Willie Nelson has been charged with possessing cannabis after his tour bus was stopped at a Border Control checkpoint

Police told local news station KVIA that Nelson's bus was stopped at 9am on Friday morning.

Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West told the station that Nelson was booked into the County Jail after a search discovered the drugs.

West also told a local newspaper: 'He could get 180 days in county jail... If he does, I'm going to make him cook and clean.'

Following his arrest Nelson posted a $2,500 bail and continued with the journey later the same day.

It is not the first time he singer has been arrested for drug possession.

In January of this year, six of Nelson's band and crew members were stopped in North Carolina for allegedly possessing moonshine and cannabis in a vehicle they travelling in. They were issued with citations.

And back in 2006 Louisiana authorities searched Nelson's tour bus and found about a pound-and-a-half of marijuana and magic mushrooms.

Nelson has long been an advocate for the legalization of marijuana.

'It’s a matter of time, a matter of education, a matter of people
finding out what cannabis, marijuana is for, why it grows out of the
ground and why it’s prescribed as one of the greatest stress medicines
on the planet,' he said during an interview in 2008.